Li Wei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK.

• Volume 1: Language Teaching and Learning Introduction: language learning and teaching (editors) 1. Politics, Policies and Political Action in Foreign Language Education, Mike Byram (University of Durham, UK) 2. Identity in applied linguistics: the need for conceptual exploration, David Block (Institute of Education, UK) 3. Language user groups and language teaching, Vivian Cook (Newcastle University, UK) 4. Language Learning as Discursive Practice, Joan Kelly Hall (Pennsylvania State University, USA) 5. Motivation, attitude and perception, Jean Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, UK) 6. Interlanguage and Fossilisation: Towards an Analytic Model (ZhaoHong Han, Teachers College Columbia, USA) 7. Developments in language learner strategies, Ernesto Macaro (Oxford University, UK) 8. We do need methods (Michael Swan) 9. Integrating Content-Based and Task-Based Approaches for Teaching, Learning, and Research, Teresa Pica (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 10. The decline and fall of the native speaker teacher, Enric Llurda (University of Lleida, Catalonia) 11. Third culture and language education, Claire Kramsch (University of California at Berkeley, USA) 12. New roles for L2 vocabulary?, Paul Nation (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)